Category: Insights

  • The Stock Photo Trap: Why Creative Teams Get Into It

    The Stock Photo Trap: Why Creative Teams Get Into It

    The deadline is in two days. The marketer opens a stock photo platform — again. Hours already burned this week, while other tasks quietly pile up in the backlog. The search returns thousands of results. None of them are right. One has the wrong emotion. Another features the wrong demographic. A third has a background…

  • AI Tools for Marketers: A Personal Survival Guide

    AI Tools for Marketers: A Personal Survival Guide

    There’s a specific feeling I couldn’t shake for the better part of last year. Imagine being stuffed inside a washing machine — except instead of laundry, it’s crammed with whitepapers, AI tool newsletters, LinkedIn hot takes, and competitor case studies. The drum spins. You tumble. And you realize, at some point mid-cycle, that there’s no…

  • New Wave In AI Video Generation — Who’s On Top?

    New Wave In AI Video Generation — Who’s On Top?

    Why Kling 3.0, LTX Video 2.3, and Runway Gen 4.5 each earned their spot — even if one clearly steals the show. Here’s a confession most AI tool companies won’t make: not all models we work with are ideal. Some of them make mistakes and you still need dozens of generations to get the result…

  • Qwen Image 2.0: What Alibaba Actually Built

    Qwen Image 2.0: What Alibaba Actually Built

    In February 2026, Alibaba released Qwen Image 2.0 without much fanfare. Seven billion parameters, native 2048×2048 output, and a first-place ranking on AI Arena — the blind evaluation platform where real people vote on real results without knowing which model produced them. We are exploring what they mean in practice, where the model genuinely delivers,…

  • Creators vs. AI: Navigating the copyright crisis

    Creators vs. AI: Navigating the copyright crisis

    In this blog post, we share thoughts on legal disputes between tech companies and rights holders from the entrepreneur, investor, CEO & co-founder of Everypixel Dmitry Shironosov. After a few years of euphoria over the potential of AI and admiration for increasingly complex technologies and solutions, AI is now frequently at the center of legal disputes…

  • Amara’s Law: How the AI Hype Cycle Leads to Disillusionment

    Amara’s Law: How the AI Hype Cycle Leads to Disillusionment

    Discover how Amara’s Law applies to the AI hype cycle, moving from inflated expectations to a realistic understanding of AI’s role and limitations in our world.

  • Five Tips To Set the Right Mindset for AI Startup Owners

    Five Tips To Set the Right Mindset for AI Startup Owners

    Gain insights from Everypixel CEO Dmitry Shironosov on how to navigate challenges and focus on product development for entrepreneurial success.

  • People Are Creating an Average of 34 Million Images Per Day. Statistics for 2024

    People Are Creating an Average of 34 Million Images Per Day. Statistics for 2024

    Discover AI image statistics: the total number of AI images, the number of images created with Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and more.